Starting with MACC 8.0.0-855 (also known as HotFix #3) system crashes are observed when running the “enable” task (limited activation) from ePO.One of the performance improvements added in MACC 8.0.0-HF3 was about solidification time (whitelist creation).To achieve this, we started filtering those IPRs generated by our own service because of the file operation done, necessary to obtain all the information that is going to be stored in the inventory. This logic was causing the system crash under certain race conditions. The failure rate observed in production is about 10%.For details, see the following documents:KB90083 - Solidcore is causing a BSOD upon applying limited Enable on 8.0 HF3:https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB90083

This release of McAfee Installation Designer can be installed to 32-bit and 64-bit environments.Features:Adds support for 64-bitIncludes Enterprise 8.8 Patch 10 Global Exclusion Rule -This release includes the ability to add the new VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 Patch 10 AAC Global Exclusion Rule. For more information about the policy, see KB89933. To use this feature, you must have McAfee Installation Designer 8.8.10, VSE Patch 10, ePO 5.1.3 or higher.Known Issues:• Create a VirusScan Enterprise installation package with an invalid .msp patch, the installation package file (Setup.exe) fails.• Configuration files (.cab) are not supported for use with McAfee ePO.• Alert Manager configuration is still available within McAfee Installation Designer.• When running Setupvse.exe on a fresh OS image, a package created on a McAfee ePO managed client system fails to later install, showing error "1920: unable to start framework service".For details, see the following documents:Installation Designer 8.8 Release Notes - Rev B (PD23074):https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=PD23074McAfee Installation Designer 8.8 Known Issues (KB75031):https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB75031Installation Designer 8.8 Product Guide (PD23073):https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=PD23073

McAfee will be reposting our ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) installation packages prior to ePO 5.3.3 and 5.9.1 so they no longer include a java runtime environment (JRE) on November 30, 2017. If any possibility exists that you will need to install ePO 5.9.0 or 5.3.2 or earlier after this date, for disaster recovery or other purposes, McAfee strongly recommends you download them from the Product Downloads site now. See KB89799 for details: https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB89799​

McAfee Customers,Nearly eight months ago, McAfee became one of the world’s largest pure-play cybersecurity companies. At that time, I committed to our customers, partners and employees that we would be a company focused on innovation and growth with a singular pledge of keeping the world safe from cyber threats. Today, we continue the journey by announcing that McAfee will acquire Skyhigh Networks, the worldwide leader in the cloud access security broker (CASB) market segment.

Skyhigh is an ideal complement to McAfee’s strategy—one focused on building and optimizing mission-critical cybersecurity environments for the future. Cloud security has historically been an afterthought of, or impediment to, cloud adoption. With customers’ most valuable asset, data, increasingly finding residence in the cloud, it’s time security move to the forefront. At the same time, security cannot hinder cloud adoption, as the transformation the cloud promises extends far beyond the corridors of IT to every facet of modern business.

Skyhigh had this prescience five years ago, when it distinguished itself as the first cybersecurity provider to launch what is now a burgeoning CASB category. They purpose-built a cloud platform for both frictionless experiences and coordinated control. They envision a world where the cloud is not only secure—but the most secure environment for business. Many of the world’s largest companies have put their confidence in Skyhigh. And, major industry analysts agree, positioning Skyhigh as a leader. Skyhigh earned these accolades by putting customers at the core of their business—a value shared by McAfee.

Indeed, McAfee and Skyhigh share more in common than values. We both aspire to make cybersecurity an accelerant to the limitless potential of our digital age. We both know that our employees are at the heart of everything we do. And, we both are committed to modernizing cybersecurity environments for the future.

McAfee is placing our bets on where we believe those environments are best modernized—where endpoint and cloud serve as the architectural control points linked by the security operations center with actionable threat intelligence, analytics and orchestration, and enabled by an open ecosystem. McAfee started its legacy in endpoint; Skyhigh in cloud. Each company is known as a leader in the category it helped create. And, upon this transaction close, both legacies will meet under one company, McAfee, to offer our mutual customers market-leading capabilities in the two control points that matter most.

We hope to finalize the transaction shortly after completing certain regulatory approvals and satisfying customary closing conditions. Until then, it’s business as usual for both McAfee and Skyhigh. Once the deal closes, you can be confident that the combined force of these two companies will be a whole greater than the current sum of its parts—yet one more example that together truly is power. And our pledge to keep our customers, communities, governments and nations safe from cyberattacks will be stronger still.